ChinaFile Recommends
06.21.17China’s Dog Meat Festival Opens Despite Rumours of a Ban
Agence France-Presse
A notorious Chinese dog meat festival opened on Wednesday with butchers hacking slabs of canines and cooks frying the flesh despite rumours that the authorities would impose a ban this year.
Depth of Field
03.22.17
Refugees from Myanmar, Migrant Workers, and the Lantern Festival
from Yuanjin Photo
This month, we feature galleries published in February that showcase photographers’ interest in China’s borders and its medical woes, the lives of its minorities and their traditions and customs, and—in the case of Dustin Shum’s work—in a visual...
ChinaFile Recommends
06.15.16Dogs and Cats Rescued Ahead of China Dog Meat Festival
Telegraph
11 million people worldwide sign a petion that rescues a total of 34 animals....
ChinaFile Recommends
01.27.14A Chinese Filmmaker Points His Camera at the Darkest Moments in Communist Party History
Public Radio International
Hu's films are tolerated by the Chinese government and have been screened at independant film festivals in China.
The NYRB China Archive
02.15.13
Dancing in Empty Beijing
from New York Review of Books
The Lunar New Year began last week as it always does, with a new moon. The empty sky seemed to empty Beijing of up to half its residents—authorities estimate that an incredible nine million people left the city, which usually has a population of...